If PIA thinks you don't have an FCC RN, they direct you to svartifoss2.fcc.gov, which used to host the FCC's CORES registration system. Svartifoss2 apparently still exists, but seems to exist only to forward requests to the appropriate server.

It seems that hraunfoss has avoided a similar fate for now, but it makes me worry. With the melting of the glaciers in Iceland, the actual waterfalls are endangered, and it would be nice to think that the FCC could at least carry on the names.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

I'm at a conference today, and the number one question I'm getting from people walking by is, "When will we be filing this year?" The answer is "I don't know." OK, so I can tell them that it looks like we'll have a window very similar to last year, and the USAC Board confirmed that timing this week, but we still don't know the actual dates.

Imagine if the IRS waited until January each year to announce when your taxes would be due.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Can you hear my teeth grinding? Once again, USAC's New Brief is trying to explain "entities." As I've said in the past, the word "entity" should be scrubbed out of every corner of this program. Because "entity" and "billed entity" mean two different things, and the distinction is not consistently observed.Want to find the entity number for a particular school in your district? Use the Billed Entity Number Search tool, even though you're not looking for a billed entity.
As in the past, the News Brief says you can put an "entity number" in Block 1, when in fact, you should only put a Billed Entity Number in Block 1. The confusion goes on.

We should be talking about "organizations" and "locations," not "billed entities" and "entities."

Or maybe my aversion to the word "entity" is left over from this movie.

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Involved with the E-Rate program since 1997, On-Tech's president, Dan Riordan, has continuously assisted schools and libraries in obtaining E-Rate funding, first as a trainer, then as a district employee, and now as an E-Rate consultant.